What is happening at Fukushima

I'll leave you a link to a blog where a researcher from Boston's MIT explaining what is really going on at Fukushima:
http://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/

Speaking Italian?

You can see that foreign language learning isn't something that you can do just by looking right. You also have to study. Enjoy!

Martin Luther King Day

Today is MLK Day, a holiday in the USA. I strongly recommend you to check his most famous speech, which you can find in this blog, with a transcription. It was published in January 2010, so use your menu on the right and go for it!!

Digital Nativity

How would the story go if Jesus had been born around now instead of 2000 years ago? Well, here you have your answer! And, of course, it involves mobile phones, Google Maps, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook!

Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg has been all over the news in Spain these last few days because of what he said when he was interviewed by Conan O'Brien. If you look for the videos on youtube you'll find a lot of angry people writing comments, either because they hate the Spanish show or because they hate the actor. I actually think that both groups are partially right: the host of the show (Pablo Motos) has an ego the size of Jack Nicholson's, and he normally uses his guests to make himself look good. However, Jesse Eisenberg was completely wrong when he thought that Spain carries a grudge towards the USA because of WWII. First: Spain was not involved in World War II (that's not entirely true, Spain was having enough problems after its own civil war, so it was officially neutral, even if it somehow tried to help the Germans) Secondly: because it was a dictatorship, it did not receive any American help, so, my dear friend, no American "ships and planes full of help" arrived in Spain. Get your facts straight before speaking.
And finally, because this blog is for a language class (an English class): don't be so proud about being linguistically incompetent! Learning is always a positive thing, even if it is learning foreign languages!